New Queer Television

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Evolving Landscape of Queer Television



Dany Girard, Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday







Part I: Dramatic Realities



1. Love, Victor and the Utopian Function of Networking Queer Identity Work



Sam Hunter



2. Striking Poses of Possibility: Exploring the Transgressive Imaginations of the Series Pose and its Promotional Posters



Daphne Gershon



3. 'Que soy marimacha': Vida's Queer Inheritance



Laura Stamm







Thought Pieces



'You Cannot Put A Fire Out': Revisiting Queer Female Histories in Dickinson



Sarah E. S. Sinwell



Pushing 'LGBT-Friendliness' into Japanese Television: A Case Study of My Brother's Husband



Timo Thelen







Part II: Paratextual Politics



4. You Don't Get Points for Paratext: The Precarity of Queer Representation in Good Omens



Alex Xanthoudakis and Tvine Donabedian



5. Soulmates and Brotherhood: Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Chinese Series, The Untamed



Roxanne Tan



6. Retrospective Queering: LGBTQ Representation in The Legend of Korra Television Series and Comics



Sarah Busch







Thought Pieces



For the Honor of Gayskull: Why Queer Love Saving the Universe in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Matters



Colleen Etman







Part III: Generic Possibilities



7. Not Just A southern Pansy, Sergeant. the Southern Pansy: Good Omens' Queer Representation



Dawn Stobbart



8. Granting Wishes: Representing Queerness in American Gods



Yaghma Kaby



9. 'It's called acting! That's the real magic here': She-Ra and the Princesses of Power's Nonbinary Character Double Trouble as Lens for Intersection of Identity, Performativity and Acting



Harold Bosstick



10."Those are the worst jobs on the ship:" Star Trek: Lower Decks and the Radical Queer Utopia



Dany Girard







Thought Pieces



De-Fanged Queerness in Dracula Reimagined



Carey Millsap-Spears







Claws & Queer Fantasy: The Queer Power of Contemporary Television Narrative



Brecken Hunter Wellborn







Coda: Looking Forward to the Next Season of New Queer Television



Debra Ferreday, Dany Girard, Thomas Brassington